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If I have 2 lights operating from 1 x 1 gang switch on a junction box system - I can have JB with 2 core switch cable and light cable coming off and then I string a cable from first light to second light .If I want a 2 way switch and I run 3 core 2 way from 1st 1 gang switch to second 1 gang...

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For anyone who has read "2 red cores in a light fuseholder" and could be bothered to map the enclosed out as I can't do a diagram! i would be grateful if you could let me know if there is odd stuff going on here. As some of the red cores going into the light fuseholders seem to have the other...

Is there any way I can check wether the cores are 2 radials or if infact someone has wired the lights in a ring?

If I have a multi terminal box with 2 core light cable and 3 core switch cable coming out canput a 3 core strapping cable from the existing switch to a new switch for 2 way use or do I need to feed the new switch from the terminal box also?

I have a 4 terminal junction box in old house. into this JB comes a 1. lighting cable (2core+earth) that goes to a strip light. 2. 3 core and earth cable going to multi term box (I think) 3. a 2 core and earth cable that seem to go to something that looks like and old bakelite connector...

Have been mapping out the lighting circuit from a consumer unit in extension part of house. (the old part of house has lights going off 3 seperate multi terminal boxes) Extension part of house has different consumer unit and 2 lighting fuse holders. Lighting fuse holder A which seems to...

I notice in the 'How to' section there is a reference to loosefill cork garnule insulation - does anyone know where to get this or product names, etc. thanks

Does anyone know of a program on the internet which allows you to put wall build ups, etc in so that you can see condensation, dewpoints, what works, doesn't work - I know architects have these kind os programmes but is there a DIY freebie one anywhere. Thanks

Does this mean that to add in a light I need to continue with junction boxes. As i have most of the house as a building site and lights seem to be in old bakelite junction boxes with earths connected on the outside - would i be best to get lighting cicuit rewired?

Am I right in saying that if I have an existing light being fed from an old junction box system I can make a loop in connection from this exisitng ceiling rose - By running a cable from old ceiling rose to the new light ceiling rose and take the new switch cable from the new ceiling rose. If i...

Should we get this changed - when we bought the house 8 months ago we had to get an elec cert to say the wiring was ok which we got but i guess the guy couldn't see all the junction boxes, etc buried away under floor boards. having found it i am wondering wether to change it. in fact should we...

Having traced lighting wires on a junction system with multi terminal boxes - one boxes has 3 earth wires sticking out of it that are bent over the top and connected into a small white plastic thing (a bit like the white bit with the screws on the back of a wall light). They are just sitting...

We have a mid stairs light with a two way (bot stairs/top stairs) switch system. These switches also operate the lower hall light - all are connected via a multi terminal junction box. I want to remove the lower hall light from this so that the switches are only for the stairs and then put in a...

Is there a limit to the amount of new lights you can add by looping in if they are coming off a rose attached to a circuit that has fat multi terminal oozing wires type junction boxes. How does the no more than 1200 watt JB rule accomodate loop-ins added on does this rule remain the same...

Can you combine the loop in method with an exsisting junction box lighting circuit or is this bad practice?

I have been crawling around trying to make sense of the same stuffed junction box lighting circuit situation . I can't find any info to read on what is happening in this type of system as it doesn't seem to be like a conventional junction box system or a loop in system. We have a room with 2...

What do you mean you tend to notice the loss of lights and fix them PDQ?

Actually the one single socket that goes direct to the mains - we have storage heaters that seem to be monitered by a seperate meter THTC(**P) could this be a single socket going to the storage heater section. Do you get a cheap rate socket with THTC?

Please excuse all my questions - i am being a bit cauctious and want to get everything staright in my head and mapped out before we get the electrician in. I spent ages crawling around the house /lifting boards etc and now have a full map of our ring main sockets - it seems there are 2 rings...